The Bell Tower and Beyond
Author: David E. Shi
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781570034664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe president of Furman University reflects on a variety of subjects.
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Healing Appalachia
Author: Albert J. Fritsch
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2007-05-11
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780813191775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHealing Appalachia is the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the simplest level of technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, specifically to the Appalachian region. The authors examine thirty low-cost, people-friendly, and environmentally benign appropriate technologies that are concerned with such issues as food preservation, land use, shelter, and transportation. They pay close attention to the practicality of each technique according to affordability, ease of use, and ecological soundness. Details on construction and maintenance and resources for locating further information are included, making this an essential volume for everyone who cares about the future of Appalachia.
Fighting Kudzu
Author: Mystic Thompson
Publisher: Musa Publishing
Published: 2014-09-12
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781680090024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNever cower in the shadow of shame. In 1972 on a hot, late spring day in Georgia, five-year-old Noble Thorvald plays contentedly alone in her suburban backyard. Her only companions...an imaginary professional football team. As she plays in her world of wonder and adventure, Noble is unaware of the challenges life will hurl in her direction - challenges that will redefine her more than once. Fighting Kudzu is the lyrical saga that traces Noble's life as she emerges into adulthood and discovers herself.
Conservation
Author: Anne E. Maczulak
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1438126328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the use of natural resources for the purpose of extending their availability and retaining global biodiversity.
TOME OF HORROR
Author: DAVID MAURICE GARRETT
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2009-09-29
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1453551425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Maurice Garrett‘s stories have been variously compared to Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, and Manly Wade Wellman. Drawing on legends, folktales, and a rich blend of classic short horror story elements, Garrett’s stories conjure supernatural terrors and gothic atmospheres reminiscent of the Elder Days of Horror. This collection contains 32 eerie tales including “The Undertaker’s Task”, a story of a mortician’s grim job of embalming his own daughter, “The Sacred Burial Ground”, wherein two hapless friends unleash an ancient curse upon a community, and “The Door”, in which a professor infatuated with tombs unwittingly becomes the victim of his own obsession. Prepare to be unnerved, for the classic horror tale is not dead!
The Ever-Shrinking Fighting Force
Author: Arnold Punaro
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9781735911403
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIts capabilities unrivaled and its global reach unmatched, America's military is the envy of the world. Yet, to those in the know, like retired Marine Major General Arnold Punaro, a former Staff Director of the Senate Armed Services Committee, there is compelling need for improvement in its support elements. From the glacial pace of acquisitions to the spiraling growth of the defense agencies to the fully-burdened costs of the All-Volunteer Force, the Department of Defense's non-warfighting elements are not getting enough bang for the buck. Every recent Secretary of Defense has pushed business-minded reforms as a high priority, citing the need to convert overhead to warfighting capacity.Despite substantial increases in defense spending over the last decades, the number of warfighters is still declining. The Ever-Shrinking Fighting Force lays out, in clear and compelling detail, the major factors that contribute to this adverse trend that has outlasted efforts to reverse it by strong Defense Secretaries and even Presidents.Drawing on his half-century of experience in national security, Gen. Punaro offers a no-nonsense look at the inefficiencies that have plagued the Pentagon's creeping bureaucracy for decades. With calls for defense reform emanating from both the executive and legislative branches, this timely book provides a road map for thoughtful and balanced improvements.
Forest Research in the Southeast
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKForest Research in the Southeast
Author: Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N.C.)
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 450
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cancer-Fighting Kitchen, Second Edition
Author: Rebecca Katz
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Published: 2017-02-14
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0399578714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new and revised edition of the IACP award-winning cookbook brings the healing power of delicious, nutritious foods to those whose hearts and bodies crave a revitalizing meal, through 150 new and updated recipes. Featuring science-based, nutrient-rich recipes that are easy to prepare and designed to give patients a much-needed boost by stimulating appetite and addressing treatment side effects including fatigue, nausea, dehydration, mouth and throat soreness, tastebud changes, and weight loss. A step-by-step guide helps patients nutritionally prepare for all phases of treatment, and a full nutritional analysis accompanies each recipe. This remarkable resource teaches patients and caregivers how to use readily available powerhouse ingredients to build a symptom- and cancer-fighting culinary toolkit. Blending fantastic taste and meticulous science, these recipes for soups, vegetable dishes, proteins, and sweet and savory snacks are rich in the nutrients, minerals, and phytochemicals that help patients thrive during treatment. This second edition also includes a dozen new recipes--many of which are simpler and less complicated, for cancer patients to prepare on their low days--as well as a list of cancer-fighting foods that can be incorporated into everyday life without stepping behind the stove. Rebecca has also revised the text with the most up-to-date scientific research and includes a section on how friends and family can build a culinary support team.
The Great Reshuffling
Author: Jeffrey A. McNeely
Publisher: IUCN
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 2831706025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile the issue of invasive alien species (IAS) has important biological components, the human dimensions deserve much greater attention. Humans, with all their diversity of quirks, strengths, and weaknesses, are at the heart of the problem of IAS and, paradoxically, also at the heart of the solution. This compilation of papers delivered during a workshop on the human dimensions of the IAS problem, held in Cape Town, South Africa on 15-17 September 2000, covers some of the many causes, consequences and responses to this problem.
